Victorian Fiction and the Insights of Sympathy

An Alternative to the Hermeneutics of Suspicion

Inbunden, Engelska, 2007

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This book explores the importance of sympathy as a central idea behind Victorian fiction, and an animating principle of novel reading generally. Sympathy, Brigid Lowe argues, deserves a much more important role as both a subject and a guiding principle for literary criticism.

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Utgivningsdatum2007-03-07
Mått155 x 234 x 26 mm
Vikt454 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieAnthem Nineteenth-Century Series
Antal sidor272
FörlagAnthem Press
ISBN9781843312338

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Acknowledgements; Introduction: Critical Missiles and Sympathetic Ink; Charles Dickens, Uncommercial Space-Time Traveller: Dombey and Son and the Ethics of History; Other People’s Shoes: Realism, Imagination and Sympathy; The Personal, the Political and the Human, Part I: Sympathy – a Family Affair?; The Personal, the Political and the Human, Part II: Which Family Values?; The Personal, the Political and the Human, Part III: ‘The Torn Nest is Pierced by the Thorns’ – Sympathy after the Family; Envoi: Symathetic Magic; Bibliography; Index